Skyrim:Inheritance

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If someone you were friends with has died, they will leave you a sum of gold in their will. A courier will approach you and say, "I've got a letter and a lot of gold. Something about it being your inheritance? Oh, and... sorry for your loss." He will hand over a random amount of gold and a letter of inheritance from the court of the hold that the person lived in.

Sometimes your friend can be a generic NPC, such as an Arch Necromancer.

Sometimes the note comes within mere minutes after the person has died.

It is possible to receive inheritance from people that you have killed yourself.

If you raise a friendly NPC with the master conjuration spell Dead Thrall, you may receive their inheritance after they are killed in combat, regardless of whether you have received it before.

Rich victims were intended to have a base reward of 1000 gold, but no NPCs in the game are flagged as rich. Similarly, the tax applied can vary, but nothing ever alters its value from its default of 10%.

Any text displayed in angle brackets (e.g., <Alias=LocationHold>) is dynamically set by the Radiant Quest system, and will be filled in with the appropriate word(s) when seen in game.

Not all Journal Entries may appear in your journal; which entries appear and which entries do not depends on the manner in which the quest is done.

Stages are not always in order of progress. This is usually the case with quests that have multiple possible outcomes or quests where certain tasks may be done in any order. Some stages may therefore repeat objectives seen in other stages.

If an entry is marked as "Finishes Quest" it means the quest disappears from the Active Quest list, but you may still receive new entries for that quest.

On the PC, it is possible to use the console to advance through the quest by entering setstage WIKill03 stage, where stage is the number of the stage you wish to complete. It is not possible to un-complete (i.e. go back) quest stages, but it is possible to clear all stages of the quest using resetquest WIKill03.